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Information Quotes


"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."


"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."


"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."


"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."


"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."


"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."


"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."


"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."


"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses."


"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."


"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"


"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."


"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."


"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."


"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."


"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."


"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."


"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."


"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."


"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."


"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."


"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."


"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."


"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."


"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."


"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."


"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."


"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."



"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."


"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."


"The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public."


"It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers."


"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."


"Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything."


"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."


"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo."


"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."


"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."


"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."


"Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount."


"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."


"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."


"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."


"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."


"I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends."


"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."


"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."


"We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem."


"Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs."
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